You let the government expand to the point that it's put cameras in (all of the non-elite) bowls, to make sure everyone is just miserable enough to be full of hate, but still have energy.
Then, you blame the shortages on capitalism, and keep the proles divided against each other with propaganda.
Then you increase the ersatz-chocolate ration from 30 to 20 grams per week.
It's all so much magic!

Morality is objectively true, and convicts me where I subjectively fall short.
It's these "X is a social construct" people that are the great fibbers of our day.
Once you succumb to that line of hooey, they'll start telling you that Bugs Bunny is God, and the Earth is shaped like a carrot.
Aside: don't you insult my Senate Majority Leader like that, mister: Harry the Cadaver is not a horse. Got that?

I am definitely theistic. Similar to Deist, I suppose. Spinoza, I recognise. I love the secret Gospel of Thomas and Diogenes of Sinope.

So, I have the impression that we are more than material beings, and that the metaphors of "soul" and "spirit" have an intrinsic real meaning, outside of cognitive, intellectual awareness. Those concepts are the best apprehension we have for the part of us which relates to the Divine and universal.

Can you name one? I suppose the recent bit about "enforcing my will through legislation" is about as close as you're going to come, for all one doesn't feel the need to excuse supporting "2 + 2 =4" as an expression, either.

Everything is a result of god's work, including the devil himself.

You can't assert that without denying free will, at which point your cheep materialistic reduction eats itself: in what context can the question of morality even ARISE, if we're all merely bags o' meat?
No, I don't think my excuse-fu even holds a candle to yours, sir.

We may all be of God, in a state of absolute unity. However, that claim is a dodge, when made without the awareness of being united in God. There's a lovely little book, "The Cloud of Unknowing". Worth a peek, if the church had it banned in the 13th century.

For a quick glance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing [wikipedia.org], if not a purchase [amazon.com], I'm leery about any doctrine not maximizing the individual in terms of body, mind & soul.
Because while pursuing Christ is the ultimate goal of any Christian, maximizing oneself in all three dimensions [wikipedia.org] is certainly the bi-product.
Things like Calvinism or heavy navel-gazing seem like Satan's judo, where the devil can't corrupt people directly enough, so they are sidelined with mumbo-jumbo.
But I haven't read th

We tell ourselves the story that makes us feel better, I suppose. It never gave me comfort to tell myself that there was someone responsible for everything who only answered to His own whims and could never be questioned.

Actually, I'm on your side, on Federalist grounds, that the DOMA was daft.
I also have precisely zero confidence whatsoever in that piece of work Holder, or the Voting Rights section of the DOJ, and concur with Thomas' remarks on that decision.